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La Chinoise

A movie in the making.

7.0(250)19671h 36m3

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$30.9K
Language
French
  • suicide
  • paris, france
  • based on novel or book
  • capitalism
  • politics
  • roommates
  • terrorism
  • communism
  • class struggle
  • maoism
  • experimental cinema
  • marxism

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Behind the camera

Produced in

France

Gallery

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR4 Mar 1968
    • TheatricalNRRe-release12 Oct 2007
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical24 Nov 1967
    • Theatrical (limited)Cinema '684 May 2008
    • PremiereOpen City Documentary Festival12 Sept 2021
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical+134 Jan 1973
  • BrazilBR

    • PhysicalDVD13 May 2008
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical14 Jun 1968
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalS5 Apr 1968
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP30 Aug 1967
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical16West Germany18 Jan 1968
    • PremiereGoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film21 Apr 2022
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical (limited)Greek Film Archive5 Jun 2014
  • Hong KongHK

    • PremiereSummer International Film Festival18 Aug 2017
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereBiografilm Festival24 Jun 2018
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalRe-release23 Apr 2023

Frequently asked questions

La Chinoise was released on 30 August 1967.

Audience reviews

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  • C

    CRCulver

    6/5/2018

    8/10

    In 1966, Jean-Luc Godard made the acquaintance of some young members of the French Left who felt a strong pull towards Maoism. By looking to China, they sought to escape the traditional division of the French Left into supporters of the Soviet Union, which had lost its revolutionary fervour, and Trotskyist parties, which were impotent. (Of course, at the time the West was still generally unaware of the horrific toll …

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